yourcommunitycentres – Cambrian Community Centre

Gym With Paula

Thanks to some funding from the League of Friends of Teddington Memorial Hospital the Cambrian Community Centre Gym has been able to work in partnership with Richmond Mencap to provide a new service to service users of Mencap.

Gym with Paula provides a one hour gym session for Mencap service users supported by Sarah, one of our gym instructors and a support worker from Mencap. This pilot scheme has allowed 5 service users to begin their exercise and fitness journey in a supportive, safe and friendly environment.

The group are currently half way through their initial 13 weeks and their feedback has been positive, with each service user seeing improvements to their health, wellbeing and fitness.

This project has shown how partnership work between local charities can provide an inclusive opportunity to the local community. We look forward to more feedback from participants, watching people with learning disabilities grow on their fitness journey.

Please contact Mencap directly for more information on 020 8744 1923 or office@richmondmencap.org.uk

Gym Fundraiser

Vicki, Gym Manager getting the kilometres in on the bike
Walking the Thames map
The km are adding up
Ashley running on the tradmil
Gym users busy accumulating kilometres
On your bike…..
Centre Manager David popped in to add some kilometres
A big push at the end from Becky, the last 12 kilometres takes our total to……346km
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We did it! We successfully ran, walked, cycled and rowed the distance of the River Thames on Saturday 11th October. Alongside gym users the Community Centre and Gym staff team worked tirelessly to cover the full 346 kilometres from source to sea to raise funds for much needed gym equipment.

Thank you to all who participated as well as those who sponsored participants and made donations to this very worthy cause. At 3pm we were 40km short of our target, so a few volunteers and the staff team hopped back on the gym equipment and we were able to make those finish line at 3:20pm.

There is still time to support the fundraiser by donating using the QR code in the above photo gallery!

New Timetable Available

Our new flyer featuring our Community Activities Program Timetable is now available.

As the summer holidays draw to a close and the temperatures dip it is time for all of our health and wellbeing activities to resume.

If you would like to try out any of the activities shown in the pictures we offer a FREE taster session.

For more information on any of the activities, a FREE taster session, or how to register and book for an activity please contact David Lemon, Centre Manager on 020 8948 3351 or manager@cambriancentre.org #yourcommunitycentre #communitycentre #cambriancentre #cambriancommunitycentre #exercise #activities #community #charity #fitness #health #wellbeing #tastersessions

Hartbeeps returns to the Cambrian Community Centre in September

Hartbeeps is coming to Richmond at the Cambrian Community Centre this Autumn!

Join us on Friday mornings for magical, musical, and multi-sensory classes designed especially for babies and toddlers and their grown ups! From newborns to pre-schoolers, our classes are filled with music, movement, imaginative play, and lots of giggles!

7 week term (12th September – 24th October)

9.30am (Happy House) Toddlers and their siblings

10.30am (Baby Beeps) Sitting babies to standing

11.30am (Baby Bells) Newborn to sitting babies

Fun-filled sessions that support early development whislt having the cutest dress up in town and a new adventure every week! Come and see why Hartbeeps is the most original baby class in the UK!

Book here

Volunteers Needed

Call out for volunteers to join The Real Junk Food Project

Would you like to be part of a team that helps to reduce food waste and provides healthy low cost food to your local community?

The Real Junk Food Project is looking for confident cooks as well as servers to join their team at the Cambrian Community Centre on Wednesday mornings. You will be joining a dynamic team that creates healthy lunches for 50-70 guests per session, creating dishes from the food donations that arrive that morning. This is food that is rescued from the supermarkets and other local businesses that would otherwise have gone to waste. Our community cafes operate on a Pay As You Feel basis and are open to all members of our community.

Our team of chefs aim to create a soup, two main courses (at least one vegetarian) and a dessert each session. You will get the chance to be creative, and will learn techniques of how to cook dishes in large quantities if you don’t already have experience in catering. Our servers may be serving meals, pouring teas and coffees, or helping with the washing up.

The core hours are 9-11:30 for cooking and 11:30-13:30 for serving and the team are usually all packed up by 2pm.

If you are interested please contact Sarah at trjfp.twickenham@gmail.com or pop into the café one Wednesday for a chat.

New equipment for the gym

The Cambrian Community Centre would like to send a heart felt THANK YOU to the Victoria Foundation for the grant they gave the centre recently. The grant has enabled the centre to purchase a MOTOmed muvi to support gym users who have physical disabilities, neurological conditions and or are recovering from surgery or a fall.

The MOTOmed Muvi provides motor assistance to enable gym users the option to include all limbs in their exercise program with or without motor assistance. Our dedicated gym team are excited to include the MOTOmed muvi in more programs for more gym users in the coming weeks and months and we hope that it will make a great addition to the gym equipment list.

Please contact our gym team for more information on joining, restarting or leaning more about how exercise can benefit your everyday life.

Cambrian Community Centre Trustee wins Community Hero Award

Congratulations to Kate McCormack who won the Trustee of the Year award at last nights Community Heroes event at York House.

Each year Richmond upon Thames council receives a large number of nominations from the community in recognition of the work dedicated volunteers do across the borough.

Not only is Kate one of our dedicated trustees, she also volunteers for the Real Junk Food Project and she singlehandedly runs our social afternoons on Tuesdays which incorporates our table tennis group.

The Cambrian Community Centre is pleased that the borough has recognised Kates dedication to the centre, and we our proud to call her one of our trustees.

Well done Kate!!